Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After it was further stipulated that the bad golfers be good sports, the best or the worst of the few remaining prospects were deemed to be Illinois Restaurant Owner Jack Pulford, 48; Colorado Stockbroker Joel Mosser, 45; Texas Trial Lawyer Kelly Ireland, 42; and Pennsylvania Grocer Angelo Spagnolo, 31. "I took up golf because my bowling was so bad," Spagnolo explained, "though I didn't lose that many bowling balls." Given the blessing of PGA Commissioner Deane Beman, a man with an inclination to smile, the foursome was brought to the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra, Fla., essentially...
...evil strip miners, young Megan (Sydney Penny) kneels over her martyred pooch and begs God for "a miracle" to save her mother (Carrie Snodgress), her mom's suitor (Michael Moriarty) and what is left of the settlement. Dissolve to Clint on horseback. He saves the good folks, kills the bad folks, dodges a mother-daughter rivalry for his affections and ends up in a showdown ^ with a gunslinger (John Russell) who is even gaunter than Clint. You could hibernate in Russell's cheek hollows...
...Christopher Lowe, a New Jersey investment adviser, pleaded guilty to grand larceny after writing a series of bad checks. That was just one of four such brushes he had with the law, which, in the eyes of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made him unfit to publish the Lowe Investment & Financial Letter. The SEC in 1981 revoked Lowe's registration as an investment adviser and went to court to stop publication of his newsletter. Undeterred, Lowe kept publishing...
...board both the hijacked Jordanian plane and the hijacked Lebanese plane were Professor Landry Slade, an American who is serving as an acting dean of the American University of Beirut, and his teenage son William. "It wasn't bad," the younger Slade remarked, after he and the other passengers had been released in Cyprus, "but it isn't something we want to talk about." Two days later, when he learned of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Landry Slade told reporters, "God help them all. I know what it's like." Professor Slade was, in fact, a good deal luckier...
...bad news, in contrast, came in bunches. With possible access to U.S. teletype and voice communications systems, Watkins said, the Soviets gained "the ability to better understand what they observed" of U.S. naval maneuvers. This may have helped the U.S.S.R. shorten the American technological lead in antisubmarine warfare. Naval tactics and capabilities in air and surface warfare were compromised as well. Fortunately, the Chief of Naval Operations said, much of the information that might have passed to the Soviets was "perishable," coding systems that are constantly changed and hence of little use to an enemy. The main damage was done...